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right hand quite helpless from the rheumatism, but oh, it makes us
so happy to see her up and able to get out again. We all hope the
improvement may keep on steadily, and that she may enjoy good
health again. How we do miss her!
The February number of To DRAGMA fairly thrills one with
the thoughts of Convention. Kappa Chapter has surely extended
the warmest of welcomes to her southern home. What an inspira-
tion and grand time we are going to have when we meet there in
June!
Iota sends a cordial welcome to our newest chapters, Eta and
Alpha Phi, and best greetings to all.
FLORENCE L . Moss, Chapter Editor.
TAU, UNIVERSITY O F MINNESOTA
Dear Alpha O Sisters:
The approach of spring finds us in the midst of snow storms.
There are no visions of a "fuller crimson" for us of Tau; only a
cognizance of the arrival of the Era of Mud. However, we have
little time to mourn over the delay of spring. School is so occupy-
ing ! Then, too, our vaudeville is imminent and we are (mite wrought
up about it. I said "vaudeville" through force of habit. I t really
isn't a vaudeville. The tickets look very impressive: Three Short
Plays. This is an innovation, not only for us but for Minnesota
as well. Sorority vaudevilles have become somewhat banal; their
annual number is quite appalling, and I regret to say they are uni-
formly colorless. I n view of this condition, we decided to be dif-
ferent. Besides it is contrary to all laws of the fitness of things
to waste the talent of Leta Nelson and Florence Brande on a
commonplace vaudeville show. So the plays were suggested with
the compromise of vaudeville acts in between. While we are by no
means certain of our success, we are glad to be "different," and we're
all interested in the experiment.
Last year (for reasons financial) we gave up our spring formal.
This spring we are going to defy H . C. L . and the possibility of
war or any other possibility. The sacrifice last year was reluctantly
agreed to and painfully endured. But "the compensations of time"
are about to be revealed; we have set the date for June 7th and the
place as the Glen Morris Inn on Christmas Lake. There is talk
of several June reunions and the usual planning of party gowns.
Our expectations are high.
We have inaugurated a custom of entertaining our prospective
Alpha O's at an afternoon informal party held at the chapter-house
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once each week. This has grown in favor because it admits of so
many variations. There was a Washington's birthday card-party
with appropriate tally cards and a Martha Washington corsage
bouquet for a prize. Then there was the St. Patrick's Day party
as well as a "picnic supper," which partaken of to the accompani-
ment of March winds (we were indoors) was a novelty and a success-
f u l one.
We gave an informal Valentine dance at Alice Shevlin Hall. The
programs were beautiful and Cecile tried to start a surprise dance—
but that, as Kipling says, is another story.
With best wishes to Alpha O,
M U R I E L FAIRBANKS, Chapter Editor.
CHI, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
The train, crowded with Syracuse students returning after the
holidays, jolted and bumped its way into the city. And then the
chapter-house resounded with cries of "When did you get in?"
"Hello, everybody, who's back?" and the like. And then classes
began; and then—a few days of respite, and the once joyous homes
became solemn and silent places where one tiptoed about, awed by
the preoccupied and knowledge-soaked appearance of those unfor-
tunates, who had examinations the first day. And then (after an
interminable time) examinations were over, and senior week came
with the good f u n that "Boar's Head" gave by its clever presentation
of IVe Are Seven, and the glorious time that everyone had at the
senior ball, and talking it over afterward.
But all this was merely preliminary, for then we began, one and
all, writing letters to our alumna? telling them that our annual
banquet was to be held the twenty-fourth of February, and every-
body must come, especially since Marion Rich, our District Superin-
tendent, was to be with us then and was just as anxious to meet all
our girls as we were that she should. And then she had come and
captured our hearts before we knew it. And then we were playing
the hostess to the other fraternities at the reception we gave on the
twenty-second; and then it was night and there we were crowding
about our alumna? and our "newest sisters," who were still dazed by
the sudden change from the golden sheaf to the pin we love best.
And then the banquet and its fun, and the feeling of chapter Unity
we got as we looked around the long table at a l l the girls who had
come back to us, and of fraternity unity, too, for Marion Rich
brought us the spirit of Delta in the fine things she told us of her
chapter. Epsilon was there, too, through Katherine Donlon, '12,